After 15 Years of ‘Milestones,’ War in the Middle East Still Has No End in Sight
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After 15 Years of ‘Milestones,’ War in the Middle East Still Has No End in Sight

We have it on highest authority: The recent killing of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour by a US drone strike in Pakistan marks “an important milestone.” So the president of the United States has declared, with that claim duly echoed and implicitly endorsed by media commentary—The New York Times reporting, for example, that Mansour’s death leaves the…

Reasons to Doubt the Official Osama Raid Story – Five Years Later

Reasons to Doubt the Official Osama Raid Story – Five Years Later

WhoWhatWhy exists in good part to serve as a kind of reality check. Its goal is to step outside the echo chamber, in which, no matter how improbable the “official” story, the media and the public reflexively accept it. WhoWhatWhy exists to remind us that the powerful — whether corporations or presidents or national security…